Syllabus
The subject is designed as a supplementary course for Charles University law students in all years of study. It focuses on deepening the knowledge obtained in the basic course of "Roman Law and the Foundations of Modern Private Law". Attention is paid particularly to issues connected with the creation and mechanisms of functioning of Roman Law as a whole, i.e. both private and public law; most time is devoted to the first stages of the development of Roman Law / the period of Kingdom and Republic with certain overlaps with the period of the Roman Empire.
The starting point is an explanation of the origins of Roman Law in connection with the religious views of ancient Romans including the reasons why Roman law gradually changed into lay law. Because of that, detailed attention is paid to Roman religion as well as to individual clerical bodies. A thorough analysis of the relationship between religious regulations termed fas and law profane (ius) is carried out, closely connected with problems of customary law. Another topic covered is the projection of religious notions into Roman private law, in particular family law, law of obligations, substantive and adjectival law. Great attention is also paid to the relationship of religion to public law. Another topic which students get acquainted with are problems of Roman criminal law, which is not covered in the basic course of Roman law. After an introduction dealing with the character of Roman penal law, particular criminal offences, types of punishment, and the development of Roman criminal procedure, attention is focused on the questions of the relationship between criminal law and religion. It is in this context where the following items are analysed: sacrilege (a criminal offence against religion), murder, the legal status of priestesses of Vesta, sorcery, asylum, etc.
Working with Roman law sources forms an integral part of explanations. Individual problems are presented and explained and concrete examples are taken from, above all, the so-called royal regulations (leges regiae), The Law of the Twelve Boards, Instituciones of Gaius, Digesta, and emperor constitutions preserved in the Code of Thesiodos and Iustinian. Students also get acquainted with the basic method of Roman law study -the interpretation of legal texts.
Annotation
Obecně povinně volitelný předmět Recepce římského práva přibližuje postupné pronikání římskoprávní kultury do právního myšlení v kontinentální Evropě.
V této souvislosti se posluchači seznámí s vývojem práva mezi pádem západořímské říše a nástupem vlastní recepce (v souvislosti se vznikem první západoevropské univerzity v Bologni), s jednotlivými recepčními školami, a dále s vývojem právního myšlení v zrcadle římského práva od počátku dvacátého století.
Pro zápis předmětu Recepce římského práva je vhodné, aby student měl absolvován nebo alespoň zapsán předmět Římské právo a základy novodobého práva soukromého II.
Absolvovaný předmět není možné opakovaně zapsat.